Since pagan times harvest
festivals have been annual celebrations for successful harvests. They featured
ample food and freedom from the necessity to work in the fields. The common
features were eating, merriment, contests, music and romance. Christians
adopted these festivals to give thanks to God our creator for God’s goodness in
the harvest. Today we give thanks for the harvest we have grown in our gardens,
if we have one, and the harvest we are able to buy each day in the shops. We
are reminded again of God’s generosity and we join with all God’s people in continuing
to give thanks for God’s provision. We are invited to pray “give us today our
daily bread” and to know that for most of us that daily bread is far more than
enough. Harvest festivals also
provide a time reflect on our ongoing desire for more. It is an occasion for us
to confess that we too often are not satisfied and many in the West in particular
are driven to have more. This has resulted in a significant percentage o…

My passion is for a church that takes young people and youth ministry seriously. I am looking for how that might be.
I am a Third Order Franciscan and a Priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa - New Zealand. I have been involved in ministry among young people for the last 23 years. I am now a vicar of a small parish on a very historic site here in Tauranga, trying to live out all I have learnt about faith, life and ministry.
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